by marissa | Aug 29, 2014 | Personal Blog Posts
It’s been a quiet month online for me because my favorite human and I were busy cycling, camping, and marrying on a little Danish island. We packed up a tent and sleeping bags, loaded up our bicycles, and then, ALLAKAZAM! *smoke clears*– I’m a wife!...
by marissa | Jul 10, 2014 | Personal Blog Posts
After a heavy storm on a hot summer’s day, when everything is still quiet and steaming, the lake near my home has an almost J.G.Ballardian feel about it. “In the early morning light a strange mournful beauty hung over the lagoon; the sombre...
by marissa | Apr 4, 2014 | Personal Blog Posts
I edit full time but moonlight as a cat-sitter/dog-sitter. It makes for some beautiful new environments and friendly editing companions. Here is where I am now, near Alexanderplatz in Berlin, hanging with a lovely snoozy new dogfriend called Nelson… ...
by marissa | Sep 5, 2013 | Personal Blog Posts, Science Fiction
This is my kinda camping. Stormy weather, empty lakes, and science fiction. 🙂
by marissa | Aug 22, 2013 | Personal Blog Posts
My manfriend is taking me camping and canoeing for a week, which is already PRETTY EXCITING, but even better this time because the campground we are staying at doesn’t even supply toilet paper — we have to bring our own. Yay! Let me explain why this is...
by marissa | May 11, 2013 | Inspirational, Personal Blog Posts, Science (Cosmos, Mind & Psychology of Reading)
Today is the birthday of Richard Feynman, the great scientist, poet, storyteller and merry prankster. It’s hard to write about him because I know I can never do him justice, and because sometimes when I read over his words I get all heartachey. I think of him as...